FLUID-5405: The speak option in the Explore Tool demo causes Safari to crash

Metadata

Source
FLUID-5405
Type
Bug
Priority
Critical
Status
Closed
Resolution
Escalated
Assignee
N/A
Reporter
Colin Clark
Created
2014-06-05T09:59:34.149-0400
Updated
2016-03-03T10:32:27.478-0500
Versions
  1. 1.5
Fixed Versions
N/A
Component
  1. Prefs Framework

Description

I received this bug report from Tom Pokinko and verified that it is indeed an issue:

"I was browsing the Preference Exploration Tool (link from the FLOE website) in Safari on my Macbook Pro running OS X Mavericks.

http://build.fluidproject.org/prefsEditors/demos/explorationTool/

I chose to have the page read to me from the preferences at bottom and the website crashed badly. Error message: “Safari web content quite unexpectedly." Now even after clearing my cache the website crashes every time I go on it (I can’t change my preferences back to the defaults)."

Environments

Safari 7.0.4, Mac OS X 10.9.x

Comments

  • Colin Clark commented 2014-06-05T10:18:31.363-0400

    This appears to be related to the Festival server, rather than the client side. For example, if you try to play this URL directly in Safari, it will also cause the crash:

    http://tts.idrc.ocadu.ca/?q=text to speech enabled

    It is worth exploring a few issues:

    1. Are we sending back correctly formed WAVE files?
    2. Do we have the appropriate MIME type configured and are we sending the the right headers?

  • Justin Obara commented 2015-06-15T15:14:21.598-0400

    We should upgrade the Exploration Tool to use the web speech api.